The one guide you'll need to know about the openings coming your way in the week ahead. This week heralds the beginning of the busiest month in the year for new restaurants, and we're starting off strong with one of Autumn's most anticipated new openings.
Kid
Soho - 55 Frith Street, London W1D 4SJ
Kid sees David Carter (Manteca, OMA, Smokestak) joining forces with former Mangal 2 chef Sertaç Dirik to launch his new modern Turkish restaurant in Soho. Easily one of the most eagerly-awaited new openings of the year, Kid sees Dirik looking to the Turkish food he grew up with, mixing in British produce and applying a modern take that's been influenced from his time in Copenhagen. Dishes include XL Cornish scallop with coco bean fasülye, lamb lokma with sivri ezme and a mixed kebab. Cocktails also look promising with new takes on a Cosmopolitan and, of course, a martini. It's already getting hard to book a table, and when word properly gets out, expect this to be one of autumn's hottest tickets.
Opening date: 1 September 2026
Kerridge's and Georgie's Bar
Whitehall - 10 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AE
Tom Kerridge is pivoting his main London home. What was Kerridge's Bar and Grill is now Georgie's Bar and Kerridge's. The new bar has the most space devoted to it, with a completely new menu to go with it, while the restaurant becomes more of an intimate affair. New dishes include a cheeseburger with BBQ brisket and pink shellfish brioche rolls with Bloody Marie-rose sauce. The cocktail list is being given a big overhaul too, including four new martinis served straight from the freezer.
Opening date: 5 September 2026
Dumbo
Soho - 37 Berwick Street, London W1F 8RS
London has been going through something of a smashburger renaissance in the past couple of years and one of those restaurants leading the charge has been Dumbo. Originally from Paris, their Shoreditch burger bar was a big hit. Their second opening in Soho will be a larger affair, but the menu will be kept deliberately small, with the one cheeseburger at the heart of it (although the chicken tenders here are also fantastic).
Opening date: 4 Seprember 2026
LaCage
Kensington - 201–203 Kensington High Street, London W8 6BA
This is a new sports bar that comes from Canada, where it's something of a Montreal institution. Over here, the sport will lean more towards football than ice hockey, but the food remains the same. That means that poutine (chips, cheese curds and gravy) will be a big thing, but there are also tartares and lobster rolls on offer. Drinks like the Maple Old Fashioned are also leaning Canadian.
Opening date: 4 September 2026
Gordon Ramsay at Sea Containers
Bankside - Sea Containers London, 20 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PD
Gordon Ramsay has had a busy time of it lately with new openings, and this one takes on a prominent space right by the river. He now has the main restaurant inside Sea Containers, which gives him some prominent terrace space right by the Thames. The menu is being relaunched to have a new focus on seafood, with Fruits de Mer platters, Whole Native Lobster, and Cornish Crab Tagliolini all on offer. You will, of course, be able to order Ramsay's signature beef Wellington too.
Opening date: 1 Seprember 2026
Here's what opened last week
Bleecker (Camden) - One of London's best burger bars unveiled its latest opening on national Burger Day.
This week's events
2 September (King's Cross) - Hoppers is bringing back its Dosa Deep House terrace sessions, pairing sunset DJ sets from emerging South Asian artists with dosas, Sri Lankan curries and signature cocktails. The evenings coincide with the return of Hoppers' limited-edition Kalupol Chicken Bun, with £2 from every sale donated to Feeding the Future.
3-6 September (Wapping) - Meatopia returns to Tobacco Dock with four days of live-fire cooking from leading chefs, including Budgie Montoya, Ana Goncalves and Zijun Meng, Brad Carter, Adriana Cavita, Harneet Baweja and many more, with every dish created exclusively for the festival.
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